malard
\ma.laʁ\
The verdict
“malard” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canard de sexe mâle (notamment colvert), sauvage ou domestique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malard · malard · French
malard · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.laʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
malard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.laʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Canard de sexe mâle (notamment colvert), sauvage ou domestique.".
malard has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is malard, spelled M-A-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Canard de sexe mâle (notamment colvert), sauvage ou domestique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un malard, qu’on trouve aussi écrit malart, est le mâle des canards sauvages ou domestiques.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.